Right now the most credible source of information around is General Sada, Saddam Hussein's former advisor. When he speaks, we should all shut up. O.K. --- Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is true, Eric, and it has bothered me for a > long time. I know > exactly how quickly I agree with things that confirm > my world view. My > evidence bar is significantly lower for things I > expect to agree with. > But I can't believe that that isn't true for any one > who's paid > attention for more than forty years. We can't > really go out and confirm > everything for ourselves and, just as in movie > reviews, we learn whom we > can mostly trust to react as we might. Often, it's > all we can do. So, > call me crazy, but I'm more inclined to believe > Seymour Hersh than > George Bush. > Ursula > > Eric Yost wrote: > > > Ursula quotes Carl: If we've been bamboozled long > enough, we tend to > > reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no > longer interested in > > finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured > us. > > > > Like jihad, this saying works both ways. If you > get bamboozled long > > enough, you also tend to reject any evidence that > you're NOT being > > bamboozled. It's more ego-syntonic to assume that > there's only > > bamboozling going on. > > > > > > Eric > > ___ > > Literature was born not the day when a boy crying > wolf, wolf came > > running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big > gray wolf at his > > heels: literature was born on the day when a boy > came crying wolf, > > wolf and there was no wolf behind him. That the > poor little fellow > > because he lied too often was finally eaten up by > a real beast is > > quite incidental. But here is what is important. > Between the wolf in > > the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story > there is a shimmering > > go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the > art of literature. > > > > -Vladimir Nabokov, "Good Readers and Good Writers" > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To change your Lit-Ideas settings > (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > > digest on/off), visit > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, > vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html